Just as important, because it also supports traditional
client/server and legacy architectures, CA Plex provides a unified
environment for leveraging objects across all enterprise applications.
This gives customers the ability to take advantage of new
service-oriented technologies while extending the useful life of
existing applications.

"Successive generations of new technology often result in
counter-productive fragmentation of application development efforts
across the enterprise," said William Hunt, senior product manager at
CA. "By unifying and simplifying model-based development for new and
traditional architectures, CA Plex r6 enables IT organizations to
improve their productivity and take advantage of synergies between
diverse applications."

With CA Plex r6, Web services can be managed as "first-class"
objects. Developers can view, diagram, document, and manage these
objects just as they do others in their enterprise model. This enables
the re-use, inheritance and other attributes to Web services that
developers require to achieve the efficiency, consistency, and
reliability necessary to fulfill today's demanding business
requirements within increasingly tight development resource
constraints.

CA Plex r6 adds a code generator for C# to its existing code
generators for Java, C++, RPG III and RPG IV. Based on the .NET 2.0
Framework, the C# generator utilizes OLE-DB to support access to all
market-leading databases. It provides rich interoperability between
.NET, Java and System i applications as well as with .NET applications
developed with Microsoft Visual Studio.

Also new in CA Plex r6 is the ability to model and deploy
applications as Java JAR files and .NET assemblies through a new build
environment that exploits Apache ANT and MSBuild.

CA Plex r6 facilitates the use of "patterns"--business objects
that provide solutions to many of the recurring problems that arise in
development--to further improve application development. CA Plex
includes hundreds of pre-designed and pre-tested patterns that are
grouped into libraries. These patterns can be encoded and reused via
an object-oriented inheritance engine. Any changes to a pattern are
immediately applied to all instances throughout the design model.

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business and a leading provider of tax,
accounting and audit solutions (salestax.com) relied on CA Plex as the
primary tool to build its CertiTAX and ZipSales Returns solutions.

"The productivity gains and cost savings that CA Plex r6 has
delivered for us have been outstanding," said Victor Herr, development
manager for CCH. "With CA Plex, we were able to leverage existing
client/server and System i-based skill sets to deliver award-winning
solutions with next-generation Web services. We have such confidence
in CA Plex that we used the beta version of r6 to build our next
generation sales tax application which we plan to launch later this
fall."

CA today also named ADC Austin--an IBM iSeries and
Microsoft-focused systems integration, software, and i5 platform
modernization/migration firm--as a primary reseller for CA Plex. ADC
Austin joins an extensive network of authorized resellers, service
providers, education providers and technology partners providing
pattern libraries that extend the capability of the CA Plex
environment. ADC Austin is providing professional services and
education for CA Plex--as well as migration patterns that enable CA 2E
customers to upgrade their application development environments to
take full advantage of CA Plex's multi-platform and SOA-enabling
capabilities.

"CA Plex is a powerful solution for streamlining application
development and ensuring the long-term value of current development
investments," said John Rhodes, technical director and principal at
ADC Austin. "We appreciate the confidence CA has shown in us by making
us their partner in extending this exciting technology, and we are
committed to demonstrating that this confidence is well deserved."

The third annual CA Plex/2E Worldwide Users Event will be held
Sept. 19-21 in Cincinnati. The event will feature free technical
training opportunities along with business and technical sessions from
CA, partners, vendors and end users. For more information, please
visit http://ca.com/us/events/item.aspx?e=143087&eis=1.

About CA

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology
(IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the
management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered
in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries.
For more information, please visit http://ca.com.